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The thread discusses methods for checking disk health, with the original poster inquiring about tools to verify the integrity of a single large file on an NTFS drive without scanning the entire disk. The user is seeking a way to perform targeted checks to save time, rather than running comprehensive disk tests like chkdsk. A respondent indicates that, to their knowledge, such specialized tools do not exist, and suggests trying a tool like SeaTools as an alternative. The overall tone suggests a lack of readily available solutions for limited-file NTFS checks.

pstein

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Obviously the user can check the consistency of a FULL, whole NTFS hard disk by performing a "chkdsk" command and run in addition one of the well known tools (like MiniTool Partition Wizard) a surface test to check whether all sectors of a hard disk are ok.

But what if I don't want to check the full, whole hard disk but only one (big) file?
I suspect only one file of being defect and want to avoid a long-lasting chkdsk and surface test.

Are there tools which narrow the ntfs and surface check to one file?

Peter
 

kemical

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Not that i've heard of... Have you tried running SeaTools?
 

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